@dafyre said in Would You Hire Someone in IT Who Does Not Have a Home Lab:

@tonyshowoff said in Would You Hire Someone in IT Who Does Not Have a Home Lab:

@dafyre said in Would You Hire Someone in IT Who Does Not Have a Home Lab:

@tonyshowoff said in Would You Hire Someone in IT Who Does Not Have a Home Lab:

@scottalanmiller said in Would You Hire Someone in IT Who Does Not Have a Home Lab:

@tonyshowoff said in Would You Hire Someone in IT Who Does Not Have a Home Lab:

I've never had a home lab and I'm better than most people I hire, or have worked for, or many I have met (but I've also met a lot of people way more knowledgeable and talented @scottalanmiller being one of them). Having said that, I do remember almost everything I do and read better than most people, so it's just genetic cheating anyway.

Your company is your own lab, though.

I guess that's true, but even prior to that. I've irritated some IT people just because I read tutorials, KB articles, forum posts, etc one time and then remember it forever, and even on this forum I have easily gone back to exact things people have said and called them on it. I'm not bragging though, I do realise there is a varied amount of training and knowledge people need, so I'm not like Samuel Johnson and assume everyone else who doesn't remember as well as I do is stupid and unworthy. There's a lot of talented people with even poor memories as well, since many times problem solving has less to do with memory, and more to do with... well.. problem solving. Fortunately I have skill at both, and try to pass along my garbage by participating in places like ML and SW to save others the time.

What's that old saying? "One man's garbage is another man's treasure?"

Upvote my garbage!

Upvoted!

Now it's a treasure.

@Dashrender said:

I wanted to start by telling this guy that he doesn't know what the hell he's talking about.

That's all you need to say in my opinion. Of course you can lay it all politely if you want

Anyway so he doesn't know what DB they use at all, but knows it's not SQL? How does he know?

@coliver said:

"They don't have a very good business model what are you going to do when they fold?" Aggravating to say the least.

Since it's FOSS you can manage the project yourself, but every time a closed source company goes out of business, that code vanishes into thin air forever, leaving people behind. That's another thing people don't seem understand. Just because you paid for something, doesn't mean they'll support you when they fold, but if a FOSS company folds, at least you have the ability to fork the project and keep it going, especially from other users.

For example if Microsoft goes belly up Windows will die out, but if Linus Torvalds dies or Richard Stallman or anyone else like that, people will still crank out code for Linux, GNU projects, etc.

Did C support or implementation suddenly drop off after Dennis Ritchie died? Compare that to, say... ColdFusion or some other god awful garbage, those creators still curse the Earth and their products are dying.

@flaxking said in Why Do Recruiters Never Get Involved in Forums Like This:

Only the naturopath who actually qualified enough to be a real doctor would stand a chance.

A real doctor wouldn't believe in the banging-on-wood-like-cures-like-nonsense of homeopathy, but I imagine plenty of recruiters are just as full of crap as someone selling nothing but pure water maybe with lavender in it homeopathic "medicine", and do just as much research. Many years ago I had signed up with some service that was a placement service and a recruiter, and I told them repeatedly I did not know or want to know how to write programs in Pascal, yet they repeatedly called and told me they had a new job for me... in Pascal, COBOL, Assembly. I was never offered a job in any language I knew/was proficient in except once and when I interviewed they told me that they just "claimed [they] were looking for C++ programmers so that more people would show up for [their] PL/I interviews." That stupid company was AOL and they hired me anyway.

Maybe that logic extends to recruiters, they think if they just place someone who is expert in... Juniper or whatever in a Cisco oriented job then it'll magically work out, they don't know how ugly pine trees can possibly be used for networks anyway.*

*Because they don't realise Juniper is a networking company not plant

@Dashrender Wow, "platform independent," is he describing SQL as an actual piece of software not a language/mark up? And the rest he says is just... I don't even...

Because you can have SQL front ends to many different types of databases, some non-RDBMS also have SQL front ends.

He's an expert in being ignorant as hell.

A question I'm more interested in: is it the last Windows OS ever?

Short answer: no

I kinda wish they would've rounded up to NT 7, I mean why not, we're skipping major versions of the product itself, why not the kernel, and while we're at it, why not make the file system NTFS 4.0

I'm not one of those weirdos that gets all upset about version numbers (like the whole PHP 7 fiasco), but I'm just saying hey, since we're doing it, right?

For an actual point to this post: I'm not certain the higher release maturity means much yet, until we get an actual view of it, certainly all of the actual OS stuff is likely more mature (as that tends to be how it works) but most people judge it on UX not on memory management, I/O, and whatever else.

Furthermore, for the first time I'm not sure if this will help Windows in the long run. If Apple were smart (they're not) they'd broaden their hardware support (bad idea anyway) to get more people to switch from Windows. I mean, it's a hypothetical thing that won't really happen, but it's an interesting thought. Now there's the whole thing about easy-to-use Linux, everything on the web, all that.

So maybe the strongest Windows yet but the least relevant ever? Not saying irrelevant, but it could be the beginning of a significant backslide.

@scottalanmiller said in How did you get started in IT?:

@WrCombs best place to start!

Definitely, I had to use my body to get to the top of IT.

@scottalanmiller Just wait until the OOP version comes out, then you'll be afraid

@nadnerB said:

Two things Adobe are known for:

1. Selling Photoshop
2. Owning Flash
   (multi-level pun there )

3. Memory leaks
4. Making money vanish

So this Judge, not Microsoft, has the final word?

@JaredBusch said:

Going to bed (at 4am CST) oops...

Wuss, I'm still up, programming, like a star, because I am a super star. I'm also delirious from lack of sleep

@MrWright4hire said:

After Effects.

Here are some: http://lifehacker.com/5976725/build-your-own-adobe-creative-suite-with-free-and-cheap-software a few suggestions aren't open source, but still cheaper and still not Adobe.

For After Effects specifically, people seem to recommend http://www.blender.org/ a lot, which is apparently primarily for 3D but can be done for correcting, compositions, and other stuff. Since After Effects is "pretty niche" it may not be as easy to replace, but also apparently a lot of "big shots" use:

http://www.thefoundry.co.uk/products/nuke/
http://www.autodesk.com/products/maya/overview

for most of the things that After Effects does, from what I can find anyway, but I avoid design like the Black Death, I'm strictly a developer.

@scottalanmiller I got an itch to disassemble it, I gotta see it! It's tearing me apart!

@scottalanmiller said:

@Dashrender said:

Kids love to learn how to spell words?
Of course, my kids are my kids and I have read two histories of the Oxford dictionary and am currently reading "Made in America", a history of the American dialect of English

I'm pretty anal about spelling, using British (Queen's English) form when possible and using the full alphabet, not the American shortened one lacking letters like æ and œ.

I use English-English spelling all the time, unless spell check changes it, or I make a strange mistake since English is not my first language. And of course I use French and Mediæval Latin letters like @scottalanmiller mentions, and I'm especially anal about this in words like résumé where not having them changes the meaning of the word, or if people misspell them and put stuff like "resumé," I actually had a guy apply for a job and spell it that way, I didn't correct him, but I did email him a response and spelled it correctly (résumé) and this moron emails me back to tell me I misspelled it.

Having a Hungarian keyboard makes this all pretty easy, especially with the dead key that lets me throw out basically any Latin-1 and Latin-2 character.

@scottalanmiller Some are aware, but those who like the complex spelling tend to come from the point of view that memorising many spellings makes them intelligent, so a less complex spelling system would take that away from them. The astonishing part is that there is an obsession with spelling bees at all, the idea memorising a list of things makes on intelligent is just bafflingly bizarre.

Then there are those who claim that complex spelling means that it creates English's vast vocabulary, and I've seen this even in conferences related to the English language. This takes almost no effort to figure out how logically moronic this is, the idea the spelling of a word influences whether or not the word exists.

In college I went all the way to the Anglo-Saxon Studies program, primarily because the history of English was fascinating to me, because it's so unusual and complex compared to other Germanic languages. Hungarian, on the other hand, is barely any different than it was 1,000 years ago, and Hungarian needs some reforms, but compared to English, it's pretty easy, though spoken Hungarian is vastly more complex than spoken English. English is pretty easy to learn to speak, but really complex to learn to read/write. I've noticed a lot of people take pride in thinking "English is the most complex language" when it's absolutely not, it's pretty simple, though not as simple as Afrikaans or something, it's the spelling that slows people down.

My daughters learned to read and write almost all Hungarian words by the age of 5, however even now my youngest at 7 still has a lot of difficulty with spelling more complex English words.

Additionally, I hate how illogical-spelling -defenders say "the meaning is in the spelling" or "you can figure out the etymology from how it's spelled," this is 100% useless for children learning to read/write, and many times it's not even true.

I mean "island" is that related to insula? Nope, it's from "iland" and the "s" was added arbitrarily to make it "look more Latin." A lot of this crazy shit goes back to the creator of the first dictionary who had a photographic memory and thought anyone else who didn't was "a moron." He intentionally screwed up spellings. Additionally, Dutch speaking printers who didn't speak English would arbitrarily add letters to words like "ghost" and "though".

Why defend something so screwed up? Holy cow.

@MattSpeller said:

@IRJ said:

We are so quick to point everything out as racism these days. Its really sad

I agree, it's just a really short sighted (stupid) move they did to block certain names. Racism implies intent.

If they keep doing it (and they are) then there's intent.

@s.hackleman said:

Is there a major downside to homeschooling? I know everyone always goes on about the social aspect, and it is clear that that can be solved. Do you find there is anything else missing in the homeschool environment?

It takes a lot of time and effort to do it correctly, and it takes some bravery (and money) to hire (or get someone) to help teach something you don't understand as your child advances. Anyone who mentions lack of "social interaction" as a downside, well all I have to say is: if your kid is only getting social interaction through school, your kid is probably pretty damn unhappy and lonely.

I posted about this before, the solution is just reload the page:

http://mangolassi.it/topic/4033/nodebb-login-bug

@thecreativeone91 said:

I personally like MRTG much better

I have to second this, I suggest trying both before putting a lot of effort into one or the other, or just try both because it's fun!

@Dashrender said:

@scottalanmiller said:

I prefer peanut butter too, but growing up in the US can cause that.

I find myself in the same boat.

I love American food, it's the best food in the world. Traditional Eastern European food is the worst food in the world. Italian food is great too, and I do get a lot of BS for liking peanut butter more than nutella from my European friends and family. They can all go to hell, I'll eat McDonald's in Rome any time.